Nukes for the Wahhabis.

[Locutus]

House launches probe of US nuclear plan in Saudi Arabia:

The US is rushing to transfer sensitive nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, according to a new congressional report.

A Democrat-led House panel has launched an inquiry over concerns about the White House plan to build nuclear reactors across the kingdom.

Whistleblowers told the panel it could destabilise the Middle East by boosting nuclear weapon proliferation.

Firms linked to the president have reportedly pushed for these transfers.

The House of Representatives' Oversight Committee report notes that an inquiry into the matter is "particularly critical because the Administration's efforts to transfer sensitive US nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia appear to be ongoing".

President Donald Trump met nuclear power developers at the White House on 12 February to discuss building plants in Middle Eastern nations, including Saudi Arabia.

And Mr Trump's son-in-law, White House adviser Jared Kushner, will be touring the Middle East this month to discuss the economics of the Trump administration's peace plan.

Saudi Arabia has said it wants nuclear power in order to diversify its energy sources and help address growing energy needs.

But concerns around rival Iran developing nuclear technology are also at play, according to US media.

Previous negotiations for US nuclear technology ended after Saudi Arabia refused to agree to safeguards against using the tech for weaponry, but the Trump administration may not see these safeguards as mandatory, ProPublica reported.

Critics say giving Saudi Arabia access to US nuclear technology would spark a dangerous arms race in the volatile region.

The House report is based on whistleblower accounts and documents showing communications between Trump administration officials and nuclear power companies.

It states that "within the US, strong private commercial interests have been pressing aggressively for the transfer of highly sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia".

These commercial entities could "reap billions of dollars through contracts associated with constructing and operating nuclear facilities in Saudi Arabia".

Mr Trump is reportedly "directly engaged in the effort".

The White House has yet to comment on the report.

The report includes a timeline of events and names other administration officials who have been involved with the matter, including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Mr Kushner, Mr Trump's inaugural committee chairman Tom Barrack and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Flynn was found guilty of lying about Russian contacts by special counsel Robert Mueller as a part of the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

The commercial entities implicated in the report are:

IP3 International, a private company led by ex-military officers and security officials that organised a group of US companies to build "dozens of nuclear power plants" in Saudi Arabia

ACU Strategic Partners, a nuclear power consultancy led by British-American Alex Copson

Colony NorthStar, Mr Barrack's real estate investment firm

Flynn Intel Group, a consultancy and lobby set up by Michael Flynn

The report states that Flynn had decided to develop IP3's nuclear initiative, the Middle East Marshall Plan, during his transition, and while he was still serving as an advisor for the company.

In January 2017, National Security Council staff began to raise concerns that these plans were inappropriate and possibly illegal, and that Flynn had a potentially criminal conflict of interest.

Following Flynn's dismissal, however, IP3 continued to push for the Middle East Plans to be presented to Mr Trump.

According to the report, one senior official said the proposal was "a scheme for these generals to make some money".

Full article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47296641

Looks like there is mushroom for war in the Middle East.

 

[Angela53510]

So what is with the Che Guevara avatar?

Also, to comment on your union position, nothing worse than unions for brainwashing people, especially at the executive level. (Meaning that is where YOU got brainwashed!)

I remember all the antics and lies of the BCTF when I was teaching. A worse job of representing people, of any viewpoint except themselves, the ultra radical left, you could not find. Well, except the Surrey teacher's union. They wanted to leave the BCTF because it wasn't radical enough.

I do believe in universal health care. It gives access to everyone, and at much less cost than the US for-profit system. Doctors make a lot of money in Canada, they are not hurting, but neither are the poor. Not socialism, but caring for the poor. The least we can do in our affluent societies.

 

[Subhumanoidal]

"Mr. Trump". They mean President Trump.

 

[tourist]

"Mr. Trump". They mean President Trump.

I believe that he prefers Mr. President.

 

[Subhumanoidal]

I believe that he prefers Mr. President.

I think you missed the point.

 

[PennEd]

Our Canadian friend stuck his leftist head up after getting smacked down, and fearful of lawsuits, in promulgating the lie that the Covington children were hateful, when it was the lying Indian and Black Hebrew Roots group that verbally assaulted the children.

Now he sports the murderous leftist Che Guevera in his avatar. In case he is merely ignorant, here are some Che facts to chew on:

5 inconvenient truths about Che Guevara
February 18, 2019
T-shirts featuring Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara have never really gone out of style. Rapper Jay-Z has worn the shirt, model Gisele Bundchen has posed in swimwear featuring Che’s face, and even Prince Harry was photographed in Che garb in his younger years.
Multiple Hollywood films glorify the Cuban revolutionary, transforming him over the decades into somewhat of a pop-culture fixture – whose face still symbolizes for many the fight against the supposed capitalist machine, at a time when socialism is picking up renewed popularity in America.

But Guevara’s fans might not be aware of just what their idol did and said. Here’s a look back at the history.
Guevara said he killed people without regard to guilt or innocence
In 1962, the official Cuban newspaper Revolución reported that Guevara said, “in times of excessive tension we cannot proceed weakly. At the Sierra Maestra, we executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.”
In his own diaries, Guevara waxed poetic: “I see it printed in the night sky that I … howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches, will take my bloodstained weapon and, consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.”
He later wrote in one of his diaries about how he shot a peasant who admitted leaking information to the enemy. “He gasped for a little while and was dead,” Guevara wrote. “To execute a human being is something ugly, but [also] exemplary.”
Thousands were killed by the Cuban regime, with many killings linked to Guevara.
WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM REALLY MEANS
“He was directly responsible for at least 124 killings,” Maria Werlau, author of the book “Che Guevara’s Forgotten Victims,” who has spent years documenting the specific people killed at Guevara’s orders, told Fox News.
His defenders say he did what was necessary for a revolution.
“Yes, my father killed – but revolutions are almost always violent,” Guevara’s daughter, who lives in Cuba, said in a speech in England in 2012.
Guevara created system that put gay people in labor camps
In Guevara’s diaries, he wrote of one man who, “apart from being homosexual and a first-rate bore, had been very nice to us.”
But Guevara’s diary quip also spilled into reality.
“The regime that Che Guevara co-founded is the only one in modern history in the Western Hemisphere to have herded gays into forced labor camps,” Humberto Fontova, author of “Exposing the Real Che Guevara,” told Fox News.
Guevara set up Cuba’s first forced labor camp for people viewed by the state as delinquents. One journalist who managed to see such camps reported that inmates worked 60 hours per week, guarded by men with guns, and were paid almost nothing.
Gay people were among many targeted groups. People who had other “decadent” capitalist cultural practices could also be targeted.
“You see all these rock n’ roll bands [praising Che] like Rage Against the Machine and Carlos Santana – folks, they are eulogizing the emblem of a regime that made it a criminal offense to listen their music!” Fontova said.
Guevara opposed a free press
In 1959, leftist journalist José Pardo Llada reported that Guevara told him: “We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy.”
Fontova says that was in line with Che’s actions.
“When Che Guevara first arrived in Havana, he moved into the biggest, most luxurious mansion in the city. A Cuban journalist, Antonio Llano Montes, wrote about it in 1959. Naturally, Che Guevara’s goons paid him a little visit,” Fontova noted.
Montes, recounting the incident from abroad in a 1984 book titled “La Dinastía,” reported that Guevara’s men took him to Che, who then gave him an ominous show of signing 26 execution approvals in front of him. Montes reported that Guevara then threatened him, saying: “I can have you shot this very night, what do you think?”
Montes wrote that Guevara left it at the threat, however, and the journalist quickly fled the country.
Guevara made racist statements
In Che Guevara’s diary, he wrote of “the blacks” living in Caracas, Venezuela, calling them “those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing.”
Guevara went on to write: “the black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving.”
Fontova says Guevara’s actions – in his revolution against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista – were worse than his remarks.
“Many of the people Che was sending to the firing squad were members of Batista’s army, and these disproportionately tended to be black and mulatto. Batista himself was mulatto.”
Batista had been considered by many Cubans to be a friend of Cuba’s black minority, and had elevated several to prominent posts in government.
“The lilly-white Che Guevara and Fidel Castro overthrew the mixed-race Batista,” Fontova said.
Guevara also at times, however, called for more blacks to be represented in institutions and had black fighters under his command.
A messiah complex
Guevara’s diaries contain grandiose wording, casting himself as a savior absolving the sins of privilege with bloodshed.
Guevara wrote of a night where, talking to a fellow communist by a lamppost, a vision came to him offering clarity.
“I now knew… that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people,” he wrote.
“I see myself … the great equalizer of individual will, proclaiming the ultimate mea culpa [apology]. I feel my nostrils dilate, savoring the acrid smell of gunpowder and blood, the enemy’s death; I steel my body, ready to do battle, and prepare myself to be a sacred space within which the bestial howl of the triumphant proletariat can resound…” Guevara went on.
“His arrogance – that is one thing that everyone agrees on,” Fontova said.
The parable that “those who live by the sword, die by the sword” also applies to Guevara.

After helping to establish socialism in Cuba, Guevara traveled to other countries to launch more revolts. His last attempt was in Bolivia, where he surrendered to Bolivian soldiers after a battle and was then executed, without a trial, on orders from the Bolivian government.

 

[Locutus]

Also, to comment on your union position, nothing worse than unions for brainwashing people, especially at the executive level. (Meaning that is where YOU got brainwashed!)

 

[Locutus]

What's me avatar got to do with the US trying to flog nuclear equipment to the Saudis?

 

[tourist]

I think you missed the point.

Probably since I didn't take the time to read a single post in the thread except the one that I responded to.

 

[UnderGrace]

Well I will admit this is not a good thing.

There is one Republican that I respect and it looks like he is working against this move.

Meanwhile, a US Senate proposal offered by Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat – with support from Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican – seeks to block Saudi Arabia from developing bomb material by prohibiting it from enriching uranium or re-using plutonium from any future power plants.

https://theconservativeinvestordaily.com

This is not a good sign, perhaps The Pres is a globalist after all, in which case we are in trouble.

 

[UnderGrace]

What's me avatar got to do with the US trying to flog nuclear equipment to the Saudis?

Trying to be provocative??

No worries I am not a snowflake......unlike most liberals..

 

[Angela53510]

What's me avatar got to do with the US trying to flog nuclear equipment to the Saudis?

Oh, it doesn't! Except by supporting a killer communist like Che Guevara, you are taking a stand that you agree with him. And if you don't, I will assume your next avatar will be of Trump wearing a MAGA hat!

We have enough trouble in Canada right now, with Saudi Oil, SNC-Lavalin, Quebec trying to block our pipeline, so they can bring in more Saudi Oil, paying for it with 17 billion in transfer payments from western provinces who are no longer "have" provinces, even though Quebec is.

Worry less about nuclear equipment and the US government, and more about the disaster we having with Trudeau 2.0 and his destroying our country in every way possible.

Besides, it was bugging me in your last post, but I was on my phone, making it too hard to post about! I grew up in the anti-war climate of the late 60's. I've just seen this face too many times on posters as a positive role model, instead of the destroyer he was.

 

[Locutus]

Oh, it doesn't! Except by supporting a killer communist like Che Guevara, you are taking a stand that you agree with him. And if you don't, I will assume your next avatar will be of Trump wearing a MAGA hat!.

You right wing dings keep calling me a socialist so I thought I may as well wear da hat..

 

[UnderGrace]

Oh, it doesn't! Except by supporting a killer communist like Che Guevara, you are taking a stand that you agree with him. And if you don't, I will assume your next avatar will be of Trump wearing a MAGA hat!

We have enough trouble in Canada right now, with Saudi Oil, SNC-Lavalin, Quebec trying to block our pipeline, so they can bring in more Saudi Oil, paying for it with 17 billion in transfer payments from western provinces who are no longer "have" provinces, even though Quebec is.

Worry less about nuclear equipment and the US government, and more about the disaster we having with Trudeau 2.0 and his destroying our country in every way possible.

Besides, it was bugging me in your last post, but I was on my phone, making it too hard to post about! I grew up in the anti-war climate of the late 60's. I've just seen this face too many times on posters as a positive role model, instead of the destroyer he was.

Canada was done and sold out to the highest bidder a long time ago, sadly, a country with so much promise.

This is a clip of Rex Murphy giving a speech, brought a tear to my eye, he speaks to many of the issues you raise.

I hope you will watch it....we need more like him to speak the truth.

 

[UnderGrace]

You right wing dings keep calling me a socialist so I thought I may as well wear da hat..

You are not a socialist???

 

[Locutus]

Rex is good - but it was Harper and his conservatives that sold out Canada to Ghina to buy Calgary-based Nexen oil.

 

[Locutus]

Canada was done and sold out to the highest bidder a long time ago, sadly, a country with so much promise.

Tell yer what I think, Canadians for a long time have had it quite good, they've fallen asleep and allowed the greedy capitalists to do their own bidding and successive governments for the sake of relative peace and quiet have acquiesced to the GD's.

And then the idiot buys a pipeline.

 

[UnderGrace]

Rex is good - but it was Harper and his conservatives that sold out Canada to Ghina to buy Calgary-based Nexen oil.

Yup.

Opposites sides of the same coin....they have one agenda globalism, but then you do not believe in that stuff.

I think even Mr. Murphy was fooled....hopefully he knows better now.

 

[Locutus]

Opposites sides of the same coin....they have one agenda globalism, but then you do not believe in that stuff.

Depends what you mean by globalism. The Christian "apocalyptic" version - no.

 

[UnderGrace]

Depends what you mean by globalism. The Christian "apocalyptic" version - no.

Well this is pure speculation, but it would seem that the Globalists are using the biblical narrative as their playbook and I fear Christians will fall for it.

Having said that, sometimes I am really not sure......One World Government talk has been a concept in political science for a long time.

I think the elite are trying to make it happen.....time will tell, meanwhile I stay a way from the fake news media and try to know what is really happening, now that article form the BBC is very enlightening and worrisome.